[MyAppleMenu] Tuesday, Mar 2, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Tuesday, Mar 2, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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The Waiting Is The Funnest Part (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,62488,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
"It's the community, the joy of hanging out."

MyAppleMenu : News
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Eric Clapton Uses iTunes To Launch New Album (NME.com)
<http://www.nme.com/news/107696.htm>
Eric Clapton has released a four track EP today, previwing his forthcoming album dedicated to the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson.

Apple Tops BrandChannel's Global Brand Of Year 2003 (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/23662>
Apple was tops in BrandChannel's survey for Brand of the Year 2003 in the US/Canada rankings, but was second to Google in the global survey.

Apple's iPod Could Transform Company (Donna Fuscaldo, Dow Jones)
<http://news.nasdaq.com/news/newsStory.aspx?&cpath=20040301\ACQDJON200403011156DOWJONESDJONLINE000696.htm>
The success of the iPod demonstrates Apple's "tech know-how and strong brand" and could make the company "relevant again."

Apple Updates AirPort Software (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2004/03/01/airport>
The update is recommended for all Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) users with an AirPort Extreme and AirPort enabled Mac or an AirPort Extreme Base Station.

Perfect Pitch (Michael Snider, Macleans.ca)
<http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/business/article.jsp?content=20040301_76101_76101>
iPods, like so many of the products produced by Apple, engender remarkable brand loyalty.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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How FIleVault Should Work (Adam C. Engst, TidBITS)
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07566>
We've been uniformly negative about FileVault, the new security feature that Apple added to Panther, but that doesn't mean we dislike the idea of protecting sensitive data.

iPod's Mini A Sound Success (Mark Kellner, Washington Times)
<http://washingtontimes.com/technology/20040301-093653-9664r.htm>
For those wanting not only music and portability, but also style and panache, there is no equal to the iPod.

NoteRiser (Chris Lawson, ATPM)
<http://www.atpm.com/10.03/noteriser.shtml>
With its various limitations, I would see its primary market as those pepole who value ergonomics over portability.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Yahoo Adopts New Fees To Explore Web (Michael Liedtke, Associated Press)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1541421,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Yahoo will charge businesses to include more material currently unlisted in its online search engine.

Spam Tide May Be Turning (Cameron Sturdevant, eWeek)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1540491,00.asp>
Major announcements at the RSA Conference last week -- in addition to recent anti-spam technology advances -- mark the beginning of the end of spam as we know it.

Study: Blogging Still Infrequent (Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1541203,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Despite the potential of turning every Internet user into a publisher, relatively few have created Web journals called blogs and even fewer do so with regularly, a new study finds.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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The Case Of The Escaped Spirit (Michelle Falkenstein, ARTnews)
<http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.cfm?type=feature&art_id=1487>
Artworks are damaged in ways you would never imagine -- careless movers, overenthusiastic cleaning persons, neurotic pets. And then there was the broken Joseph Cornell box.

Who Cares What Critics Say? (Jay Nordlinger, New Criterion)
<http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/22/feb04/Nov6.htm>
Standing up to public opinion is one thing a critic does; shaping it is another.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Govt Considers Giving Mothers Up To 6 Months Maternity Leave (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/print/73540/1/.html>
The Singapore government is looking seriously at giving mothers up to six months off work and even picking up the tab for it in a bid to boost the declining birth rate.

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